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LOS ANGELES -- A high-profile name has emerged as the buyer of the Razor House, an architectural masterpiece on the coast of La Jolla.

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys plunked down $20.8 million for the striking San Diego-area estate, according to people not authorized to comment on the sale. That's the priciest deal in the coastal community this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Most people want to lose a few inches. Jenny Craig has dropped a few thousand square feet.

After slimming the asking price for her compound in the San Diego-area community of Del Mar, the weight loss guru has sold the oceanfront property for $22 million. That's $17.5 million shy of the original asking price, records show.

Sold to the highest bidder: one historic lighthouse sitting at the tip of Lake Superior's Wisconsin Point.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) auctioned off the red-roofed tower last week to Steven Broudy of California for $159,000. The Superior Harbor Entry Light was the latest property relinquished by the federal government under ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- The apartment company owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, said it has rejected a settlement offer from the Maryland Attorney General's office after two years of negotiating over the New York real estate firm's rental practices across the state.

LOS ANGELES -- Phil Spector's infamous murder castle -- where he shot actress Lana Clarkson to death in 2003 -- just got a bit cheaper. After listing for $5.5 million earlier this year, the French Chateau-style mansion has returned to market at $4.995 million in Alhambra.

The eerie estate known as the Pyrenees Castle has seen plenty over the ...Read more

Last year, right before Hurricane Florence hit New Bern, a small riverfront city along the North Carolina coast, Martin Blaney rushed to the public housing complex he runs, banging on doors, yelling: "Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate!"

When the winds settled and the rains ended in New Bern, Blaney's nearby offices were under 6 feet of water. Even ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Michael Mizanin, the former World Wrestling Entertainment champion who performs under the name "The Miz," and his wife, professional wrestler Maryse Mizanin, have slammed down $6.4 million on an English manor-style home in Westlake Village.

A gated entry opens to the stone-clad residence, which sits on more than an acre with a ...Read more

Kenneth Osgood studies propaganda. So he knew what he was seeing when business leaders announced this week that they don't just care about shareholders -- they care about customers, workers and society.

"I raised my eyebrows really high when I saw this," Osgood, a history professor at Colorado School of Mines, told me.